A Financial Planner has branded elements of pension rules a “dog’s breakfast” after the Bank of England’s chief economist said that even he failed to make sense of them.
Paraplanners have warned platform providers they must focus more on their service and not just on price.
A Fidelity equity product specialist on global and US funds has left to join Architas.
A Chartered Financial Planner has been hired as the new director general of The Enterprise Investment Scheme Association.
The fund management industry must drop “unnecessary charges”, a wealth firm says, because many savers are being scared away from investing by high costs.
The platform sector needs shaking up, a leading analyst says, as he criticised increasingly ‘clunky’ interfaces and poor reporting for clients.
A former compliance officer at Keydata has today been banned.
Industry experts have bemoaned the failure of the Queen’s Speech to move the pensions dashboard scheme further forward and to tackle fraud.
There are too many pension schemes in the UK and arguably too many regulators too, a leading pensions commentator says, after reforms to master trusts were announced in the Queen’s Speech.
A raft of changes to pensions to be made by the Government were confirmed in the Queen’s Speech today.